I had the privilege of working on Black Hawk Down and American Sniper. On Veterans Day, both stay with me — films that tried to honor service honestly. What's the veterans movie that stays with you?
Interstellar opened twelve years ago this weekend and I'm still blown away by it. The docking scene — no dialogue, just Zimmer's organ and a spinning station — is as tense as anything ever put on film. What movie still does that to you, years later? @McConaughey
Producing a movie and backing a founder is the same bet. You're not funding a script or a deck — you're funding the people making a thousand decisions after you say yes. I look for the ones who get calmer when things go sideways. What do you look for?
There are only 5 factors. 1. Pleasure Now 2. Pain now - for pleasure in the past or future 3. Luck/Magic/Grace 4. Selfless acts and 5. Reducing ‘wanting’.
DoorDash needs to be careful here
that $17 billion acquisition can easily become $33.25 billion after the delivery fee, platform fee, taxes, and dasher tip
When a director releases a longer cut, do you watch it first — or protect the version you saw first? @RealGDT's Frankenstein has a 158-minute 'Reborn Cut' next to the 150-minute theatrical cut. I'd watch the new cut first. A director revisiting his own monster is the story. You?
Would you rather - be a back up on the team that wins the Super Bowl, never playing/contributing but getting a ring OR be a major contributor on a team that makes the Super Bowl but does not win?
The domestic box office is nearing $8.3B — up 21% on last year at this point, and roughly $700M from the biggest post-Covid year. With two months left. Theatrical is roaring back.
Everyone asks where the real value in AI sits. Not the model. Not the data center. Tenstorrent builds the open alternative to NVIDIA — AI chips designed to run open-weight models, no walled garden. Intel and Qualcomm reportedly offered $5 billion for it. Jim Keller — the architect behind AMD's Zen and Apple's silicon — raised $1.5 billion at $6.2 billion to stay independent instead. In every cycle, the scarcest asset is the person who can build the machine. True in chips. True in movies. Bet on architects.